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• Eva de Graaf (82)
• Everdina Dijkgraaf (77), Borculo
• André Cobben (77), Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland
• Frans de Nooijer (61), Rotterdam
• Elizabeth de Munnik (55), 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Maria van Berkel (84), Tilburg
• Adriaan Jan IJsseldijk, van (76), Sint Maartensdijk
• Christ van de Ven (72), Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirk Brinkenberg (90), Arnhem
• Antje Anne Posthumus (84), Leeuwarden

• 1989 » Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1989 » Tomasz Kaczor, Polish sprint canoeist
• 1990 » Hikmet Balioğlu, Turkish footballer
• 1990 » Siim Tenno, Estonian footballer
• 1991 » Izet Hajrović, Bosnian footballer
• 1991 » Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Cole Sprouse, American actor
• 1992 » Daniele Garozzo, Italian fencer
• 1992 » Dylan Sprouse, American actor
• 1995 » Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress

• 1990 » Ettore Maserati, Italian engineer and businessman (b. 1894)
• 1992 » Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese author (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (b. 1936)
• 1997 » Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (b. 1875)
• 1998 » Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2003 » Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Hossein Panahi (Persian: حسین پناهی), Iranian actor and poet (b. 1956)
• 2004 » Mary Sherman Morgan, American chemist and engineer (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and theorist (b. 1932)

1. Thomas
2. Sander
3. Michael
4. Jan
5. Kevin
6. Niels
7. Tim
8. Bas
9. Johannes
10. Daan
11. Robin
12. Max
13. Ruben
14. Nick
15. Jasper
16. David

1. Laura
2. Anne
3. Amber
4. Anna
5. Sanne
6. Lisa
7. Lotte
8. Celine
9. Michelle
10. Demi
11. Eline
12. Iris
13. Naomi
14. Kim
15. Femke
16. Melissa

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
• April 29 » The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
• June 2 » In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.
• July 10 » Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
• December 1 » In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
• December 19 » SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
• December 30 » In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.

The temperature on August 4, 1997 was between 14.4 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.